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Larry Shorts
''The Life of Larry'' and ''Larry & Steve'' are two animated short films created by Seth MacFarlane in the mid-1990s that eventually led to the development of the animated sitcom ''Family Guy''. He originally created ''The Life of Larry'' as a thesis film in 1995 while attending the Rhode Island School of Design. His professor at RISD submitted MacFarlane's cartoon to Hanna-Barbera, where he was hired a year later. Later that year, MacFarlane created a sequel to ''The Life of Larry'' called ''Larry & Steve'' that features the main character of his first film, the middle-aged Larry, and an intellectual dog named Steve. MacFarlane was also hired as a writer for Disney's ''Jungle Cubs''. The short was broadcast as one of Cartoon Network's '' World Premiere Toons'' in 1997. Executives at Fox saw both ''Larry'' shorts and contracted MacFarlane to create a series based on the characters, to be called ''Family Guy''. Peter Griffin, one of the main characters in ''Family Guy'', is large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seth MacFarlane By Gage Skidmore 5
Seth, in the Abrahamic religions, was the third son of Adam and Eve. The Hebrew Bible names two of his siblings (although it also states that he had others): his brothers Cain and Abel. According to , Seth was born after Abel's murder by Cain, and Eve believed that God had appointed him as a replacement for Abel. Genesis According to the Book of Genesis, Seth was born when Adam was 130 years old (according to the Masoretic Text), or 230 years old (according to the Septuagint), "a son in his likeness and image". The genealogy repeated at . states that Adam fathered "sons and daughters" before his death, aged 930 years. According to Genesis, Seth died at the age of 912 (that is, 14 years before Noah's birth). Jewish tradition Seth figures in the biblical texts of the ''Life of Adam and Eve'' (the ''Apocalypse of Moses''). It recounts the lives of Adam and Eve from after their expulsion from the Garden of Eden to their deaths. While the surviving versions were composed from the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yahoo!
Yahoo (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web portal that provides the search engine Yahoo Search and related services including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, y!entertainment, yahoo!life, and its advertising platform, Yahoo Native. It is operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present), Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon. Yahoo was established by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. However, its use declined in the 2010s as some of its services were discontinued, and it lost market share to Facebook and Google. Etymology The word "yahoo" is a backronym for "Yet another, Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle" or "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". The term "hierarchical" described how the Yahoo database was arranged in layers of subcategories. The term "oracle" was intended to mean "sourc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Jones (composer)
Ronald Neal Jones (born July 7, 1954) is an American composer. He has composed music for various television shows like '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', ''DuckTales'', ''American Dad!'', and ''Family Guy''. Along with the creator of ''The Fairly OddParents'', Butch Hartman, he composed the show's theme song and music for its episodes. He currently resides in Stanwood, Washington, where he owns Sky Muse studios, a recording facility designed for music recording and post-production. Early life and career Jones was born in Kansas City, Kansas. He, along with his younger brother David, founded the Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps in 1971, where Ron served as the composer, arranger, and drill designer. After completing his degree in music composition and music theory, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue further education at the Dick Grove School of Music. Ron studied under the guidance of Academy and Emmy Award-nominated composer Lalo Schifrin, who asked him to copy a concerto f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lori Alan
Lori Alan is an American actress. She has played a long-running role as Pearl Krabs on the animated television series ''SpongeBob SquarePants''. She also voiced Diane Simmons on ''Family Guy'', the Invisible Woman on ''Fantastic Four'', and The Boss in the ''Metal Gear'' video game series. Personal life Alan had a mixed-faith family: her mother is a Southern Baptist and her father is Jewish. Both of her parents were performers and supported her choice to be an actress. She started acting at age five, making her television debut in a Shakey's Pizza commercial. Alan is active in animal rescue and welfare causes. She has spoken out against animal cruelty and has campaigned for the meat charity World Protection for Dogs and Cats in the Meat Trade. She is also on the board of Pickle Pants Rescue, an animal rescue organization in Los Angeles. Career Alan has done vocal work for over three decades. Her process of getting to the authentic personality of the character she is pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherry Gunther
Sherry Gunther is an American television producer, creator, and entrepreneur known for her work in animation. While at Klasky Csupo, Gunther worked on the television series '' Duckman'', '' Rugrats'', and early seasons of ''The Simpsons'', for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1991. Career Gunther served in various production roles in animation before being elected senior vice president of production at Hanna-Barbera Cartoons in 1995. Under Hanna-Barbera President Fred Seibert, she oversaw production of Turner Entertainment programs such as '' Dexter's Laboratory'', '' Johnny Bravo'', '' The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest'' and the '' World Premiere Toons''. She then went on to produce ''Family Guy'' and to found 20th Television's first in-house prime-time animation studio. She produced prime-time pilots for Imagine Television, Touchstone Television, 20th Television, Fox and Carsey Warner as well as theatrical ''Looney Tunes'' shorts for Warner Bros. Aside from her an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Huber
Lawrence "Larry" Huber is an American television producer, writer, and animator who is known for his long history as a producer at Hanna-Barbera, Ruby-Spears, and Nickelodeon. Huber began his animation career in 1969 while working on Hanna-Barbera's '' The Perils of Penelope Pitstop''. He went on to work for Ruby-Spears for 15 years. Returning to Hanna-Barbera in 1990, Huber worked on ''2 Stupid Dogs'' and '' Fish Police''. He was hired by Buzz Potamkin to supervise production on Cartoon Network's '' World Premiere Toons'' in 1995. Huber left Hanna-Barbera in 1996 following the company's merger with Turner Broadcasting. Along with Bill Burnett, Huber co-created and executive produced an '' Oh Yeah! Cartoons'' pilot on Nickelodeon, which would later air as '' ChalkZone'' as a full series. Huber continued his role in animation on '' Random! Cartoons'' and ''Adventure Time'', created by Pendleton Ward originally for Nickelodeon and later greenlit by Cartoon Network, which premiered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent, Connecticut
Kent is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. Located alongside the border with New York (state), New York, the town's population was 3,019 according to the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The town is part of the Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut, Northwest Hills Planning Region. Kent is home to three boarding schools: Kent School, the Marvelwood School, and South Kent School. The Schaghticoke people, Schaghticoke Indian Reservation is also located within town borders. The town was also home to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. History The town of Kent was sectioned in 1737 and settled about 1739. The town was named after the county Kent in England. Geography Kent is in western Litchfield County and is bordered to the west by Dutchess County, New York. It is north of Danbury, Connecticut, Danbury and west of Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford. The town's central village is found at . Accordin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obesity
Obesity is a medical condition, considered by multiple organizations to be a disease, in which excess Adipose tissue, body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it can potentially have negative effects on health. People are classified as obese when their body mass index (BMI)—a person's weight divided by the square of the person's height—is over ; the range is defined as overweight. Some East Asian countries use lower values to calculate obesity. Obesity is a major cause of disability and is Obesity-associated morbidity, correlated with various diseases and conditions, particularly cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of cancer, and osteoarthritis. Obesity has individual, socioeconomic, and environmental causes. Some known causes are Western pattern diet, diet, low physical activity, automation, urbanization, quantitative trait locus, genetic susceptibility, medications, mental disorders, Economic policy, economic pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynicism (contemporary)
Cynicism is an attitude characterized by a general distrust of the motives of others. A cynic may have a general lack of faith or hope in people motivated by ambition, desire, greed, gratification, materialism, goals, and opinions that a cynic perceives as vain, unobtainable, or ultimately meaningless. The term originally derives from the ancient Greek philosophers, the Cynics, who rejected conventional goals of wealth, power, fame, and honor. They practiced shameless nonconformity with social norms in religion, morality, law, manners, housing, dress, or decency, instead advocating the pursuit of virtue in accordance with a simple and natural way of life. By the 19th century, emphasis on the ascetic ideals and the critique of current civilization based on how it might fall short of an ideal civilization or negativistic aspects of Cynic philosophy led the modern understanding of cynicism to mean a disposition of disbelief in the sincerity or goodness of human motives and act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everyman
The everyman is a stock character of fiction. An ordinary and humble character, the everyman is generally a protagonist whose benign conduct fosters the audience's identification with them. Origin and history The term ''everyman'' was used as early as an English morality play from the early 16th century: ''The Summoning of'' ''Everyman''. The play's protagonist is an allegorical character representing an ordinary human who knows he is soon to die; according to literature scholar Harry Keyishian he is portrayed as "prosperous, gregarious, ndattractive". Harry Keyishian"Review of Douglas Morse, dir.,''The Summoning of Everyman'' (Grandfather Films, 2007)" ''Shakespeare Bulletin'' ( Johns Hopkins U P), 2008 Fall;26(3):45–48. Everyman is the only human character of the play; the others are embodied ideas such as Fellowship, who "symbolizes the transience and limitations of human friendship". The use of the term ''everyman'' to refer generically to a portrayal of an ordin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newt Gingrich
Newton Leroy Gingrich (; né McPherson; born June 17, 1943) is an American politician and author who served as the List of speakers of the United States House of Representatives, 50th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he was the U.S. representative for Georgia's 6th congressional district serving north Atlanta and nearby areas from 1979 until his resignation in 1999. In 2012, Gingrich unsuccessfully Newt Gingrich 2012 presidential campaign, ran for the Republican nomination for president of the United States. In the 1970s, Gingrich was a professor of history and geography at the University of West Georgia. He won election to the U.S. House of Representatives in United States House of Representatives elections, 1978, November 1978, the first Republican in the history of Georgia's 6th congressional district to do so. He served as Party whips of the United States House of Repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis Doi
Davis Doi (born 1954) is an American animation director and producer known for numerous American animated series and television films, as well as various ''Scooby-Doo'' and ''Care Bears'' video productions. He has been a part of many Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network original productions. Career He did assistant animation to Ralph Bakshi films, ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''American Pop''. He produced the Hanna-Barbera animated series '' SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron''. He co-produced with Larry Houston the second season of ''The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest''. His work also includes ''Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island'', ''The Smurfs'' and several other Hanna-Barbera animated cartoons. Doi has received three Emmy Award nominations, one in 1994 for ''The Town Santa Forgot'' and two in 1998 for ''Cow and Chicken'' and ''Dexter's Laboratory''. He was also nominated for a CableACE Award in 1996 for ''The Chicken from Outer Space'', an animated short with the main characters from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
